Is Aldie done?

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We were looking at a house in Aldie a dozen years ago and a plane flew what looked to be barely over the house. We stopped looking in Aldie.

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

I am not actually in Aldie but am in the VA exurbs. I don’t begrudge people their love of DC and the wealthy close-in suburbs, but it just wasn’t for me. The issues that cropped up in my kids’ MCPS ES (you can check out the MoCo schools thread for a sampling of the issues there) have not been present in our exurban ES. I don’t worry about crime ever. I am in a large comfortable home with easy access to Shenandoah, wineries and breweries. There is a sense of community and neighborliness that I didn’t experience in MoCo. YMMV, but the pros of being close-in were easily outweighed by the cons for me.

Aldie is Va exurbs, it takes easily an hour and a half from downtown DC to get there. If you live in 540 loudoun (western) or anywhere else with a 540 area code (stafford, clarke, fauquier, etc.) then you’re in the countryside honey.

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

I am not actually in Aldie but am in the VA exurbs. I don’t begrudge people their love of DC and the wealthy close-in suburbs, but it just wasn’t for me. The issues that cropped up in my kids’ MCPS ES (you can check out the MoCo schools thread for a sampling of the issues there) have not been present in our exurban ES. I don’t worry about crime ever. I am in a large comfortable home with easy access to Shenandoah, wineries and breweries. There is a sense of community and neighborliness that I didn’t experience in MoCo. YMMV, but the pros of being close-in were easily outweighed by the cons for me.

Aldie is Va exurbs, it takes easily an hour and a half from downtown DC to get there. If you live in 540 loudoun (western) or anywhere else with a 540 area code (stafford, clarke, fauquier, etc.) then you’re in the countryside honey.

Sweetie, I am happily in the VA exurbs. I’m in a 540 area code and it takes me 1 hour 10 minutes to get to my DC office.

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

I am not actually in Aldie but am in the VA exurbs. I don’t begrudge people their love of DC and the wealthy close-in suburbs, but it just wasn’t for me. The issues that cropped up in my kids’ MCPS ES (you can check out the MoCo schools thread for a sampling of the issues there) have not been present in our exurban ES. I don’t worry about crime ever. I am in a large comfortable home with easy access to Shenandoah, wineries and breweries. There is a sense of community and neighborliness that I didn’t experience in MoCo. YMMV, but the pros of being close-in were easily outweighed by the cons for me.

Aldie is Va exurbs, it takes easily an hour and a half from downtown DC to get there. If you live in 540 loudoun (western) or anywhere else with a 540 area code (stafford, clarke, fauquier, etc.) then you’re in the countryside honey.

Sweetie, I am happily in the VA exurbs. I’m in a 540 area code and it takes me 1 hour 10 minutes to get to my DC office.

you must drive during unconventional hours. during rush hour it takes 30 minutes to get across the river into virginia.

[Anonymous]

Let’s settle down ladies! We’re all friends here.

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

I am not actually in Aldie but am in the VA exurbs. I don’t begrudge people their love of DC and the wealthy close-in suburbs, but it just wasn’t for me. The issues that cropped up in my kids’ MCPS ES (you can check out the MoCo schools thread for a sampling of the issues there) have not been present in our exurban ES. I don’t worry about crime ever. I am in a large comfortable home with easy access to Shenandoah, wineries and breweries. There is a sense of community and neighborliness that I didn’t experience in MoCo. YMMV, but the pros of being close-in were easily outweighed by the cons for me.

Aldie is Va exurbs, it takes easily an hour and a half from downtown DC to get there. If you live in 540 loudoun (western) or anywhere else with a 540 area code (stafford, clarke, fauquier, etc.) then you’re in the countryside honey.

Sweetie, I am happily in the VA exurbs. I’m in a 540 area code and it takes me 1 hour 10 minutes to get to my DC office.

you must drive during unconventional hours. during rush hour it takes 30 minutes to get across the river into virginia.

No, you just don’t live out here so are talking out of your @ss. I take 66 all the way in, and with the money I’m saving by living out here I pay the HOT lane toll. It’s the easiest commute, especially since I only come in Monday and Friday.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like this was a thread already where an OP claimed that everyone that moved to the exurbs during COVID was now moving back, which is patently false.

+1

Last time I checked, everyone and their mom was moving out that way. I had a friend who moved to hartland, they love it.

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Why? Because it was $650k and a nice house. Same house in some place like Arlington would be $1.6 easy — who wants to pay that when we’re all working from home and going to continue working from home?

Who? Someone that appreciates living in an urban environment with a gazillion amenities. There is nothing in Aldie. Nada.

There’s nothing really special in Arlington unless you live on the orange line corridor. Besides that, Arlington is suburban sprawl.

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Anonymous wrote:I know so many people moving back from Aldie with less than 1 year of living there.

Then why are they building building building there?
Millions of new homes being built every single day.

Millions? 🧐

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

I am not actually in Aldie but am in the VA exurbs. I don’t begrudge people their love of DC and the wealthy close-in suburbs, but it just wasn’t for me. The issues that cropped up in my kids’ MCPS ES (you can check out the MoCo schools thread for a sampling of the issues there) have not been present in our exurban ES. I don’t worry about crime ever. I am in a large comfortable home with easy access to Shenandoah, wineries and breweries. There is a sense of community and neighborliness that I didn’t experience in MoCo. YMMV, but the pros of being close-in were easily outweighed by the cons for me.

Aldie is Va exurbs, it takes easily an hour and a half from downtown DC to get there. If you live in 540 loudoun (western) or anywhere else with a 540 area code (stafford, clarke, fauquier, etc.) then you’re in the countryside honey.

Sweetie, I am happily in the VA exurbs. I’m in a 540 area code and it takes me 1 hour 10 minutes to get to my DC office.

you must drive during unconventional hours. during rush hour it takes 30 minutes to get across the river into virginia.

No, you just don’t live out here so are talking out of your @ss. I take 66 all the way in, and with the money I’m saving by living out here I pay the HOT lane toll. It’s the easiest commute, especially since I only come in Monday and Friday.

Sorry, my farm is in lovettesville, not aldie. point still stands, during rush our it takes 30 mins just to get out of downtown dc across the river. you must work in the suburbs.

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

I am not actually in Aldie but am in the VA exurbs. I don’t begrudge people their love of DC and the wealthy close-in suburbs, but it just wasn’t for me. The issues that cropped up in my kids’ MCPS ES (you can check out the MoCo schools thread for a sampling of the issues there) have not been present in our exurban ES. I don’t worry about crime ever. I am in a large comfortable home with easy access to Shenandoah, wineries and breweries. There is a sense of community and neighborliness that I didn’t experience in MoCo. YMMV, but the pros of being close-in were easily outweighed by the cons for me.

Aldie is Va exurbs, it takes easily an hour and a half from downtown DC to get there. If you live in 540 loudoun (western) or anywhere else with a 540 area code (stafford, clarke, fauquier, etc.) then you’re in the countryside honey.

Sweetie, I am happily in the VA exurbs. I’m in a 540 area code and it takes me 1 hour 10 minutes to get to my DC office.

you must drive during unconventional hours. during rush hour it takes 30 minutes to get across the river into virginia.

No, you just don’t live out here so are talking out of your @ss. I take 66 all the way in, and with the money I’m saving by living out here I pay the HOT lane toll. It’s the easiest commute, especially since I only come in Monday and Friday.

factual. we live right next door in fauquier and it’s identical to loudoun. fauquier 🤝loudoun 🤝clarke

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

none of the schools in loudoun are to write home about. but that’s what you sacrifice; cheaper cost of living for worse schools and living 1.5 hrs from DC.

I thought the schools in Aldie would be excellent because of the heavy presence of South Asians but I was wrong. People are starting to move to private.

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

none of the schools in loudoun are to write home about. but that’s what you sacrifice; cheaper cost of living for worse schools and living 1.5 hrs from DC.

I thought the schools in Aldie would be excellent because of the heavy presence of South Asians but I was wrong. People are starting to move to private.

Can a post scream “I’m a total racist” more than your post? JFC.

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

none of the schools in loudoun are to write home about. but that’s what you sacrifice; cheaper cost of living for worse schools and living 1.5 hrs from DC.

I thought the schools in Aldie would be excellent because of the heavy presence of South Asians but I was wrong. People are starting to move to private.

Can a post scream “I’m a total racist” more than your post? JFC.

Wtf? Everyone knows Asians are good at schools — Lord knows they run around screaming about how good they are at schools. Hell there are lawsuits about it.

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

none of the schools in loudoun are to write home about. but that’s what you sacrifice; cheaper cost of living for worse schools and living 1.5 hrs from DC.

Because Dc schools are excellent?